The chronic intake of THC, the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, can protect critical immune tissue in the gut from the damaging effects of HIV infection. A [s]HealthCanal[/s] report notes that according to [b]Dr Thomas Hope, Editor-in-Chief of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses and Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University[/b]: 'To better treat hIV infection, we need a better understanding of how it causes the disease we call AIDS…This study is important because it begins to explain how THC can influence disease progression in SIV-infected macaques, It also reveals a new way to slow disease progression.’
[link url=http://www.healthcanal.com/immune-system/47778-can-marijuana-protect-the-immune-system-against-hiv-and-slow-disease-progression.html]Full HealthCanal report[/link]
Can marijuana clow HIV progression?
